Word: lithuania
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Agonizing to the friends it has left is the Soviet's nimbleness in shifting ground. Having backslid on its vows not to aggress on little nations (like Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania), and to "recognize and defend the right of the oppressed nations to a self-determination in the political sense of the word" (like Spain), last week Russia once again needed skid chains. The U. S. S. R. discarded its five-day, 35-hour work week, in its place substituted a six-day, 48-hour week. Purpose: to speed defense production. Once again a decree forbidding workers...
Russia's Sphere. Russia was preoccupied with consolidating her own position to the east of Hitler's Europe. On the heels of her occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, those three countries set up left-wing Governments that looked like steppingstones to complete sovietization. Hotly Russia's official news agency Tass denied that her Baltic grab was aimed against Germany. Tass said only 18 or 20 divisions, not the 100 reported from London, had moved into the Baltic States. Germany took the occupation calmly. Germany's calm was doubtless real, since last year's deals...
...East of Europe, France's defeat had been discounted a week before it took place. Russia moved with unaccustomed speed to safeguard her frontier against conquest-drunk Germany. Out of the safe she brought charges that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had formed a military alliance against her, promptly moved into one country after another. Half a million men and countless tanks took their places facing East Prussia. In any other week that would have been important news...
March 22. Hitler takes Memel, and signs non-aggression pact with Lithuania...
June 15. Russia invades Lithuania...